Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.
Clyde Bellecourt
Born: 1939 White Earth Reservation, Minnesota Native American tribal activist As one of the original founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM), ...
Wendy Bellissimo
Home-furnishings designer Born c. 1967, in Connecticut; daughter of Jay (a tool designer) and Lonnie (a furniture-store owner) Jarmolinski; married Joe Bellissimo (a marketing ...
Saul Bellow
Born Solomon Bellows, June 10, 1915, in Lachine, Quebec, Canada; died April 5, 2005, in Brookline, MA. Author. Saul Bellow was one of the greatest American novelists of the second half of ...
Saul Bellow
Born: July 10, 1915 Lachine, Quebec, Canada Canadian-born American author, essayist, and dramatist An American author of fiction, essays, and drama, Sa...
Carlos Beltran
April 24, 1977 • Manati, Puerto Rico Baseball player In baseball circles outfielder Carlos Beltran is known as a five-tool player. He has amazing fielding skills and a ...
Baruj Benacerraf
Venezuelan-born medical researcher Baruj Benacerraf (born 1920) shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his investigations into the workings of the human immune s...
Peter Benchley
Born Peter Bradford Benchley, May 8, 1940, in New York, NY; died of pulmonary fibrosis, February 11, 2006, in Princeton, NJ. Author. Peter Benchley wrote the immensely successful 1974 nove...
William Bennett
Born: July 3, 1943 Brooklyn, New York American agency director, scholar, teacher, and government official American teacher and scholar William Bennett ...
Dierks Bentley
Singer and songwriter Born Dierks Bentley, November 20, 1975, in Phoenix, AZ; son of Leon (a stockbroker) and Cathy (a homemaker) Bentley; married Cassidy Black, December 14...
Oscar Berger
President of Guatemala Born Oscar Berger Perdomo, November 8, 1946, in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Education: Earned law degree from Universidad Rafae...
Ingmar Bergman
Born: July 14, 1918 Uppsala, Sweden Swedish film director I ngmar Bergman is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors in the history of m...
Luciano Berio
Born October 24, 1925, in Oneglia, Italy; died May 27, 2003, in Rome, Italy. Composer. For some five decades before his death, Luciano Berio was one of the twentieth century's most prolifi...
Irving Berlin
Born: May 11, 1888 Temun, Russia Died: September 22, 1989 New York, New York Russian-born American composer and songwriter ...
Gail Berman
1956 Television and film executive By the mid-2000s, despite a constant roller coaster ride in the ratings, the Fox channel emerged as one of the edgiest and most innov...
Gail Berman
President of Paramount Studios Born c. 1957, in Bellmore, NY; married Bill Masters (a television scriptwriter); children: two. Education: University ...
Dorrit J. Bern
Chief Executive Officer of Charming Shoppes Born c. 1950; married Steve Bern (a business consultant); children: Chad, Collier, Tyler. Education: Univ...
Wolfgang Bernhard
Chief Executive Officer of Volkswagen Born Wolfgang Ayerle in September, 1960, in Böhen, Germany. Education: Earned master's degree in electrical engineeri...
Leonard Bernstein
Born: August 25, 1918 Lawrence, Massachusetts Died: October 14, 1990 New York, New York American composer, conductor, and pianist ...
Elmer Bernstein
Born April 4, 1922, in New York, NY; died on August 18, 2004, in Ojai, CA. Composer. Elmer Bernstein composed more than 200 films and television programs in a career that spanned more than...
Elmer Bernstein
During a career that spanned five decades, American film composer Elmer Bernstein (1922–2004) remained at the top of his field. Refusing to be stylistically pigeonholed, his movies...